Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Makeup is malleable and mercurial: The biggest joy I have every day is the opportunity to create, to play, and to invent with something I've loved forever.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.